When surveyed in summer of 2022, approximately three percent of survey respondents in EU countries selected the issue of whether their food is sustainable as the issue with the highest importance to them personally, as compared to a list* of other issues. About four percent ranked the issue fourth in importance.
Proportion of consumers who consider food sustainability as one of their top five most important issues in selected EU countries in 2022
Respondents who selected each of the following issue as being one of the top five most important issues to them personally.
*Other issues that were presented as selection options were:
The ability to save for retirement, animals going extinct, climate change, cost of food, cost of heating, cost of housing (e.g. mortgage, rent), cost of petrol, COVID-19, deforestation, ease of international travel, immigration, Russia and the risk of war, work/study-life balance, and other (please specify. )
**Number of respondents per country: Base: Those aged 18-65 who live in Austria (1004), Belgium (1000), Estonia (1013), Finland (1007), France (2017), Greece (1048), Portugal (1097), Sweden (1014), Germany (2044), Spain (2009), Poland (2008), Romania (1073).
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WWF. (September 27, 2022). Proportion of consumers who consider food sustainability as one of their top five most important issues in selected EU countries in 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 17, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1372324/consumers-who-consider-food-sustainability-as-one-of-the-most-import-issues-eu/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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